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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:08:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Todd Backman <tbackman@corp.gulf.net>
To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Mailbox locked
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Look in the mail que.


On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> > We have a user who's mailbox has been locked somehow. I need to clear the
> > lock but cannot locate a lock file anywhere. Where would I expect to find
> > it?
> 
> A POP locked mailbox?  Check for a file /var/mail/${USERNAME}.pop.lock (or
> .${USERNAME}.pop.lock).
> 
> The campus Solaris POP server has this problem constantly.  They finally
> created a script called 'unpop' that kills this file.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 
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=====================================================================
Todd Backman (tbackman@corp.gulf.net)  
Network Engineering 
Systems/POP Administration				 
Gulf Coast Internet Company   1-800-444-INET 


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